[exDemMom]

Okay, we can just call them “jailbirds” from now on.

It isn’t the words we use to describe them that are stigmatizing. It is the fact that they have committed crimes severe enough to land them in jail.

[mainestategop]

How about we just stop letting the government keep records of people? This whole criminal background thing is socialist and totalitarian. If you've paid you're debt to society thats it.

You're criminal background should only come back to haunt you if you're applying for a job like say bank teller or security guard or something like that that involves managing money or protecting someone.

[BitWielder1]

I like Fellow Freeper Syncopated's idea to call them "Senator".

[kingu]

Those who have been affected by crime will no longer be reported as victims. Those who have been robbed shall be referred to as donors, those who have been hurt will be referred to as blood donors, and those who have been killed shall be referred to as organ donors.

[TomGuy]

replaced by “person who committed a crime” or “individual who was incarcerated.”

Seriously?

Must be another one of those Lib ideas that looked good on paper.

Look for future complaints about "crime" and "incarcerated".

[Drango]

If we can call Bruce Jenner a woman, we can call anything whatever we want.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

They’re just thinking ahead, smoothing the way for Cankles’ inevitable residency. ;)

[SoCal Pubbie]

Won’t these new terms become stigmatizing once the public catches on?

[tumblindice]

This is the same Orwellian method they use to try to euphemize “alien” to something like “undocumented immigrant,” even though all the statutes refer to them as “aliens”.
This is violence done to the language by the Obama administration, and for a purpose. Words have meaning.
Trump is going to spend his first 6 months to a year undoing Obamanations like these.

[Joe Boucher]

DOJ like a whole lot of federal gub mint agencies should be cleaned out of a holes and crazies like this

[Right Wing Assault]

“individual who was incarcerated.”

Microagression! Macroaggression!! I demand a safe space. I have multiple personalities and I am terrorized by being called an "individual." I go into convulsions when I hear that word. I am suing the DOJ for their unjust name calling. Haters. I demand a psychiatrist! I am in tears!!! I have my hands up, don't call me that. I can't breathe because I was called that. MPLM. Multiple Personality Lives Matter. Give me money.

[Jack Hammer]

Orwell was prescient.

Newspeak not only bans the truth, it prohibits the truth.

[tumblindice]

[Trod Upon]

Changing the label doesn’t change what they are. The label doesn’t stigmatize them, they are what brings stigma to the label.

[Vendome]

Person no longer of interest....

[jonno]

What about the stigmatism of being called a “racist”, I mean that term is REALLY polarizing.

Methinks something kinder and gentler is in order; perhaps “melaninally predispositioned”?

[RaginRak]

the looniness of the left is mind boggling

[Portcall24]

And senior people currently working at Justice Department should be referred to as “Potential Felons”.